Michael Lyons

Editor

Michael Lyons is a freelance writer, specializing in film, television, and pop culture. He is the author of the book, Drawn to Greatness: Disney’s Animation Renaissance, which chronicles the amazing growth at the Disney animation studio in the 1990s. In addition to Animation Scoop and Cartoon Research, he has contributed to Remind Magazine, Cinefantastique, Animation World Network and Disney Magazine. He also writes a blog, Screen Saver: A Retro Review of TV Shows and Movies of Yesteryear and his interviews with a number of animation legends have been featured in several volumes of the books, Walt’s People. You can visit Michael’s web site Words From Lyons at: Words From Lyons at: www.wordsfromlyons.com

Articles By Michael Lyons

Bowl-ed Over: Celebrating 50 years of the Monster Cereal Commercials

Like welcome friends returning for an annual visit, The Monster Cereals come back each Halloween Season. Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry, along with the later Fruit Brute and Yummy Mummy, have been a “nutritious part of any well-balanced breakfast” since General Mills first introduced the sugary cereals in 1971. For those who have […]

Hidden Haunts: Seldom Seen Halloween TV Specials

Like the candy collected by trick or treaters that’s been cast aside, you know, the lollipops passed over in favor of a Fun Size Milky Way candy bar, several animated Halloween specials have not reached the pop-culture heights of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. But, as we make our way through spooky season, if […]

“Ears” to a Disney Masterpiece: “Dumbo’s” 80th Anniversary

There’s a scene in director Steven Spielberg’s oft-maligned comedy film 1941, where a hardened General, played by Robert Stack, goes into a movie theater that’s showing Dumbo. The staunch General’s joy at walking into the theater, his singing along with one of the film’s songs and his tears at watching a certain sequence are all […]

First in Flight: The 80th Anniversary of The Fleischer Studio’s “Superman” Cartoons

Superman has been in the conversation a lot lately. This spring brought us the highly anticipated Zack Snyder’s Justice League, (which came about thanks to a fan campaign) and this February, the CW network debuted the series, Superman & Lois. Not surprisingly, as we live in a world of the comic book shared universe TV […]

Creepy, Kooky and Cartoony: Addams Animated Adventures on TV

“They might be scary, weird, creepy, and macabre, but The Addams Family is our secret envy. If only our family dinners could be so much fun!” So said author H. Kevin Miserocchi in his 2010 book, The Addams Family: An Evilution. There is so much truth in what Mr. Miserocchi writes. How else can one […]

Michael Lyons

Editor

Articles By Michael Lyons

Bowl-ed Over: Celebrating 50 years of the Monster Cereal Commercials

Hidden Haunts: Seldom Seen Halloween TV Specials

“Ears” to a Disney Masterpiece: “Dumbo’s” 80th Anniversary

First in Flight: The 80th Anniversary of The Fleischer Studio’s “Superman” Cartoons

Creepy, Kooky and Cartoony: Addams Animated Adventures on TV

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